International Gender Champions had the extraordinary opportunity to be addressed by the Foreign Minister of Sweden, Margot Wallström, the architect of the feminist foreign policy, on the subject of 'What Difference Does a Feminist Foreign Policy Make?" at its Winter Champion event hosted by Director-General Francis Gurry of WIPO.

International Gender Champions also had the unique opportunity to meet and speak with the Women of the Breakthrough Barriers Summit that met the next day at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, including former US Global Ambassador for Women & Girls, Melanne Verveer, Supreme Court of Pakistan Advocate Hina Jilani, and colleagues from Ghana, Nigeria, Morocco, Sweden, Afghanistan, Germany, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Latvia, Denmark, Singapore, and Belgium featured in this photo alone.